[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2231: Automatically move nextRecording to other tuner if scheduled tuner is busy for showing LiveTV

[Martin Ebourne]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:26:45 -0400, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> That's why I said change to a tuner with the same channel.  With the way
> that LiveTV works now, you'd just end up with 2 files for the one show that
> you are watching.  The LiveTV chain would handle playing through them and
> the player doesn't care what tuner the shows were recorded off of.
> 
> This way your higher priority tuners are available for LiveTV but if a
> recording needs to be done, the LiveTV session could get bumped to a
> lower priority tuner with the same channel.  If no free tuner existed with
> the same channel then the default action would be as it is now with a
> possible new action added of "change LiveTV session to another tuner even
> though I can't keep watching the current show because that channel isn't
> available on the new tuner".

I like the idea, but it would break if the user pressed the record button
in live tv after being bumped to a different tuner - you'd only get the
last bit of the programme.

Cheers,

Martin.